More on sullied Andrew
Jan. 4th, 2005 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumHe says he has gotten abunch of letters berating him for his stand. He has published two.
This one (the one he has on the letters page, not on the main) does a good job of summing it up, If I were you I would be wary of telling military pilots on how they should think about any mission. His statement was not some act of fear or sedition. It was just a statement of truth no one likes to get shot at - especially helicopter pilots - we tend to make good targets. As a military pilot for 15 years, I'm proud I've been in combat but if you think for one minute I wouldn't relish the opportunity to make a difference like LCDR Whitsitt, you are mistaken.
His whiney explanation of why he said that (army are for breaking things, not fixing them, and we need to remember that, well it ain't enough.
Worse (as if that mattered is his apolgia for Gonzales; Short version; Bush won, get over it.
Long version: GONZALES AND TORTURE: In my opinion, no one who has enabled and sanctioned the potential and actual use of torture should become attorney general of the United States. But I'm not the president; and he doesn't see it that way. And the people who re-elected him had plenty of opportunity to avail themselves of the fact that this administration has quietly enabled torture of inmates in American custody, and that Gonzales played a critical role in making the legal case for such previously outlawed practices. The Bush administration's use of torture - to the point of death in at least five cases and possibly 23 more - was one reason I found it impossible to support the president's re-election. But this is a democracy. And my candidate lost. Gonzales isn't being nominated to the Supreme Court; he's being nominated to become the president's chief law enforcer; and, in general, the president deserves the benefit of the doubt on his own picks.
He follows this with a weak comment that disagreements with this should be aired, but the feeling I get from it is argument is all that should happen... Bush ought to get what he wants.
This one (the one he has on the letters page, not on the main) does a good job of summing it up, If I were you I would be wary of telling military pilots on how they should think about any mission. His statement was not some act of fear or sedition. It was just a statement of truth no one likes to get shot at - especially helicopter pilots - we tend to make good targets. As a military pilot for 15 years, I'm proud I've been in combat but if you think for one minute I wouldn't relish the opportunity to make a difference like LCDR Whitsitt, you are mistaken.
His whiney explanation of why he said that (army are for breaking things, not fixing them, and we need to remember that, well it ain't enough.
Worse (as if that mattered is his apolgia for Gonzales; Short version; Bush won, get over it.
Long version: GONZALES AND TORTURE: In my opinion, no one who has enabled and sanctioned the potential and actual use of torture should become attorney general of the United States. But I'm not the president; and he doesn't see it that way. And the people who re-elected him had plenty of opportunity to avail themselves of the fact that this administration has quietly enabled torture of inmates in American custody, and that Gonzales played a critical role in making the legal case for such previously outlawed practices. The Bush administration's use of torture - to the point of death in at least five cases and possibly 23 more - was one reason I found it impossible to support the president's re-election. But this is a democracy. And my candidate lost. Gonzales isn't being nominated to the Supreme Court; he's being nominated to become the president's chief law enforcer; and, in general, the president deserves the benefit of the doubt on his own picks.
He follows this with a weak comment that disagreements with this should be aired, but the feeling I get from it is argument is all that should happen... Bush ought to get what he wants.
